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My dear husband is graduating from college in 24 days. I'm so proud of him. He is an incredibly hard working, determined, positive-thinking, big-dreaming, man of integrity. I love that God blessed me with him.

Since we decided 5 years ago to embark on this journey of higher education, we've added 3 babies to our family and changed residences 3 times.

Now, we're so excited to settle down with our beautiful family. This involves moving to a town about 150 miles away. The job is secure, but the housing is proving difficult.

After viewing over a dozen homes, we made an offer on the only one that fit our criteria. The offer did not lead to a contract, and we felt we'd exhausted our options.

So, I started getting a little more creative. I started looking into the possibility of buying land and building.

Pictures don't show the majesty, but this is the view from a lot that I fell completely in love with. Challenges: no well (yet), no electricity (yet), relatively high price

I spent a week trying to figure out how to make this land

work for us. I looked at modular homes, picked out a couple floor plans I liked, got prices for home, basement, well, electric, septic, driveway, etc...

I started thinking about all the things I'd like in a custom home.

Wood. Hickory. Cabinets, trim, doors. Ahhh...love it.

This door is actually alder...but imagine it hickory, and that's what I have been dreaming about at night.

Unfortunately, we weren't able to make this idea work in real life (yet). And, just around the time we realized it, we got a call saying that we could maybe get a contract signed on the house we originally made an offer on. :)

So...we are currently negotiating the contract on that house...it's not going as smoothly as we had hoped. But, if it pans out, I'll let you know. It's a very nice house, and I'd be very excited to call it home...and I have plans to start installing some hickory. :)